When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.
I don't use a lot of words unnecessarily.
I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.
I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it.
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the overall effect.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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